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Back during Heritage USA/PTL Club heyday ( late 70s-early 80's ) both of our local network ( ABC & NBC ) TV stations would air Jim Bakker during syndication time. The ABC channel just after Good Morning America while the NBC channel would air TWO hours of Bakker between 4 and 6pm between the last NBC soap ( Santa Barbara ?? ) and just before the 6pm local news. After the 6:30pm NBC newscast, yepper another hour of Jim Bakker just before the start of NBC's primetime shows. Meanwhile on the weekends both channels would air 2 hours of Jim Bakker at 11pm on Sunday ( no weekend local news then )...while the ABC channel would air even more Bakker just after American Bandstand. Looking back now I gotta wonder how much local money here went on to helped build Heritage USA and filled the Bakkers bank accounts. Jim Bakker and Hee Haw apparently had ruled the airwaves around here back then.

I always had a problem with all their wealth, and I always felt like the ministry wasn't on the up and up. Then all the scandal came out. I did feel sorry for Tammy Faye when she got sick, however. She seemed to handle it with grace and courage.

I adore Tammy Faye and it broke my heart to see what an awful condition she got into with her cancer. I fell in love with her on "Surreal Life." I honestly think she was naive and didn't realize everything that Jim was into.

I never liked her until Surreal Life. She was a class act. That's how I remember her.

I never really paid any attention to her until "Surreal Life." My husband was flipping through channels one night and stopped and wanted me to look and listen. I never watch television. Tammy was on the screen with Ron Jeremy. She had the same type of bubbly personality and sense of humor that my husband's stepmom had and even sounded like her. That is what drew my husband's attention because his stepmom had just passed away a few months before seeing Tammy Faye on the show. We both fell in love with her. I miss seeing her in interviews and on Larry King. She always made me smile.

One thing pretty much now forgotten about the Bakkers...they were one of the first if not THE first to had put the city of Charlotte, North Carolina on the national, even world map even though Heritage USA itself is to the south of Charlotte just past the South Carolina state line in Fort Mill. VERY hard to believe now being a major airline hub, the "Wall Street" of the south, having the NFL & NBA, light rail, a decent sized skyline not too mention hosting the last Democratic Presidental Convention...there was a time when Charlotte was strictly a city that was for the most part only known in the south unless you had ties there. Back in the 70's and earlier go to New England and out west and say "..I am from Charlotte"..you would had to add "North Carolina" as chances are they would NOT know since Nascar was unknown to many outside the south/mid-Atlantic at the time and Carowinds Amusement Park was unknown even to those in Virginia, the next state to the north. The Bakkers for the most part were among the first to change that as everyone ( even those who didn't like them ) knew who Jim & Tammy were and knew their connection to Charlotte.

One thing pretty much now forgotten about the Bakkers...they were one of the first if not THE first to had put the city of Charlotte, North Carolina on the national, even world map even though Heritage USA itself is to the south of Charlotte just past the South Carolina state line in Fort Mill. VERY hard to believe now being a major airline hub, the "Wall Street" of the south, having the NFL & NBA, light rail, a decent sized skyline not too mention hosting the last Democratic Presidental Convention...there was a time when Charlotte was strictly a city that was for the most part only known in the south unless you had ties there. Back in the 70's and earlier go to New England and out west and say "..I am from Charlotte"..you would had to add "North Carolina" as chances are they would NOT know since Nascar was unknown to many outside the south/mid-Atlantic at the time and Carowinds Amusement Park was unknown even to those in Virginia, the next state to the north. The Bakkers for the most part were among the first to change that as everyone ( even those who didn't like them ) knew who Jim & Tammy were and knew their connection to Charlotte.

You are right. I still remember watching them on the TV with my grandmother.

My kids go to Carowinds all the time, season passes.

""It's a mop with a tongue! Can you imagine the dingleberries?" - Mammy